Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinica

Starting from her clinical experience with migrant people, the author summarizes the theoretical and operational instruments in ethno-psychological field with a critical review of some key concepts: psyche and body, health and suffering, culture, ethnic group and race, diagnosis and treatment, indiv...

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Main Author: Wanda Ielasi
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Psicologi per i Popoli : Federazione 2007-03-01
Series:Rivista di Psicologia dell'Emergenza e dell'Assistenza Umanitaria
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Online Access:http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/files/Numero%201%20Iel.pdf
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description Starting from her clinical experience with migrant people, the author summarizes the theoretical and operational instruments in ethno-psychological field with a critical review of some key concepts: psyche and body, health and suffering, culture, ethnic group and race, diagnosis and treatment, individual and collective dimension. Especially, culture becomes most relevant when psychological competences are involved in cultural contexts which are different from our own: both when we work with foreign people in our country and when we are involved in mental health projects abroad. Transcultural clinic, ethnopsychiatry, critical medical anthropology and anthropology of contemporaneousness constitute the disciplinary horizon of therapeutic communications capable of managing caregiver’s and client’s cultural aspects.
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spelling doaj.art-11b94bad51dd4cc2b2e46d7bcc3679a72022-12-22T03:07:18ZitaPsicologi per i Popoli : FederazioneRivista di Psicologia dell'Emergenza e dell'Assistenza Umanitaria2280-91202007-03-011419Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinicaWanda IelasiStarting from her clinical experience with migrant people, the author summarizes the theoretical and operational instruments in ethno-psychological field with a critical review of some key concepts: psyche and body, health and suffering, culture, ethnic group and race, diagnosis and treatment, individual and collective dimension. Especially, culture becomes most relevant when psychological competences are involved in cultural contexts which are different from our own: both when we work with foreign people in our country and when we are involved in mental health projects abroad. Transcultural clinic, ethnopsychiatry, critical medical anthropology and anthropology of contemporaneousness constitute the disciplinary horizon of therapeutic communications capable of managing caregiver’s and client’s cultural aspects.http://www.psicologiperipopoli.it/files/Numero%201%20Iel.pdfClinical anthropology
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Clinical anthropology
title Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinica
title_full Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinica
title_fullStr Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinica
title_full_unstemmed Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinica
title_short Come pesci nell’acqua. Elementi di etnopsicologia clinica
title_sort come pesci nell acqua elementi di etnopsicologia clinica
topic Clinical anthropology
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